Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1938 — Page 9

bells in tall spires.

‘aga * From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Here's Orie Carillon Player Who Gives His Public What It Wants, But He Hasn't Nerve to Swing It.

LBANY, N. Y., Aug. 30.—We were sitting in the hotel room last night when all of a sudden the whole town seemed filled with “Home on the Range” coming from nowhere. We finally decided it was

coming from the top of a City Hall tower. It was “Home on the Range” on bells, Now I've always hated music that came from Because it was always a mournful hymn or something far too classical for my hot-cha tastes. But when you hear bells playing “Home on the Range” that's different. I said to myself. “I'll have to find out about this guy.

Whoever heard of playing any-

thing popular on a carillon?”

So today I tracked down. the

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heretic. His name is Floyd Walter | §

“and I found him at the Elks Club, having a midafternoon loaf.’ . “What makes you play human on a carillon?” I asked. "Never heard .of such .a. thing.” So he told:me. Two years ago

Mr. Pyle

.he went to a carillon players’ convention. They dis- . cussed programs. ~ Beethoven and hymns.

They all brought out the same old And then Walter jumped up. He said: “I don’t know who is paying you fellows, But :I know who's paying me, it's the taxpayers. And if the taxpayers of Albany want ‘Lazy Bones,’ Wa what: they’ re going to have.” Hooray for alter, .

: The : Albany ‘carillon was installed in 1928.

scription. The city operates it. The huge steeple spire on the City Hall was

already there, but they had to reinforce it to hold [

the huge carillon bells when they arrived from . England. “There are 48 of them, all shaped like cowbells.

The biggest weighs seven tons and is taller than I1-

am. The smallest is 45 pounds, and isn’t much bigger than the old school hand-bell. Each bell is hung rigidly from a steel crossbeam in the tower, 150 feet above the street. The carillonneur’s room is right beneath the bells. The keyboard is something like: an old-fashioned organ.. Except the keys aren’t keys; theyre wooden handles on the ends of levers, three or four inches apart. You push down about an inch to ring a bell. Down - below are two long rows of foot pedals. These are duplicates of the hand keys, because in a fast piece two hands arent enough. The carillonneur -hits the low notes with his feet.

Ernie Takes a Chorus

The apparatus is mechanical, not electrical. When the player hits a key, it pulls a rod which runs up through the ceiling and whacks the clapper against the bell. I wish you could see Floyd Walter playing. There he sits with a cigar stub gripped in his teeth, his face rigid, sweat rolling out, his hands fighting

~ bees, his feet stomping out fire, his whole body “jouncing as though in a fit, and the wooden sticks “rattling so you can hardly hear the bells above.

° Walter played two pieces, ran a few scales, then told me to give it a few ‘bongs myself, just to see ‘how it felt. It felt powerful, and very soft. People in the street’ probably thought the carillon had gone crazy.

Walter plays on all holidays and Sundays. When- |

_ ever a prominent Albany citizen dies, he plays some-

_ about,

thing sad. Then two evenings a week he gives a 45minute concert of popular music. People sit in the parks and sing with the bells. I asked him how fast a piece he could play. He said any of the present college pieces. “Could you swing it?” I asked. ““Sure I could swing it.” he said. “But I don’t. If I ever played swing music there isn't a carillonneur in the country who would ever speak to me

; again.”

My Diaty

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Meets Morgenthaus, Who Apparently Are Glad to Be Home.

EW YORK, Monday.—Yesterday afternoon the ‘President and I attended the Spanish War Veterans reunion on the lawn of our neighbor, Mr. Moses Smith. I marveled at Mrs. Smith who is calm about

having her lawn trampled cn and never complains

about the extra work these parties give her. During lunch she told me that she had been brought up by a Dutch reform mother who thought dancing wicked, but that all her youth she had longed to dance. Perhaps that is why she is so understanding about letting her young people enjoy the simple pleasures of life. I have always. admired her wisdom in taking so much trouble to give her children a good time in their own home. ‘Many mothers who dearly love their children, nevertheless give them the feeling that anything. which causes extra work or upsets the home routine is too much trouble, and so the youngsters grow up to feel that all good times must be enjoyed outside the home. In the early evening I came to New York City and had an amusing time at the station there. Not ha ving any bag, I took no porter and in a leisurely manner wandered out to the underground entrance for taxicabs, and there I watched a typical scene which would have mystified a stranger. :

Much Jostling and Pushing

Everyone was in such a hurry! People who would ordinarily have been Susie ul the comfort and convenience of others, jostled and pushed each other No one was cross, this was just a game. I felt a little like the Chinese student who wondered - what we did with the time we saved. However, the

hour was growing late so I made my way to the street level. A voice behind me- called: “Lady, here’s a cab!,” but knowing that I would reach my ‘destination more quickly if I walked up one flight of steps; I paid no attention to the voice behind me. Before 6 this morning the car was at my door to take Mrs. Klotz and me to the boat which was to take us to meet the Normandie at quarantine. The sunrise was very beautiful and we passed many ships: under way even at this early hour. It was easy transferring to the big ship from the upper deck of our small boat.” I had half expected to find Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau still asleep, for it was only

7 o'clock, but they were both up and through break-

fast. The excitement of coming home is great even if you have been gone only a short time. They gave us coffee and rolls while they. talked of their experiences. Apparently it was as warm on the coast of France as it has been here on our warmest days. Like almost all other homecoming citizens of the United States whom I have seen of late, this entire family seems to be glad to meet world Problesis here. :

Bob Burns Saves

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 30.—All the papers nowadays are full of pro and con arguments about the Government interfering with business. Personally

* ‘think half the pleasure we get out of life is making

Blan and when other people interfere either for good -or bad, they're bound to throw us off schedule. 0 1 Knew a fella who was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. At the end of two years, the warden called him in and said, “You've been a good prisoner and I've talked to the prison board into givin’ you a pardon” The prisoner turned pale and says, “You can’t do this to me!: When 1 was sentenced here, I gave a fella a Yaree-year lease

nt : 3 cost. $60,000 and was bought entirely by publics sub- A

(Editorial, Page 10)

By Joe Collier HE ‘ second line of de-

cidents in Indianapolis is in training now at the Boy Scout Reservation. From 6 in the morning until 9 at night, 266 School Patrol officers are learning how to prevent accidents of all kinds, and, if-accidents do - happen, what to do about them. This is the second year for the School Safety Patrol Officers’ Training Camp, ‘the only camp of its kind in the United States. It is commended highly by the National Safety Council, the National Congress

and the American Automo-

bile Association. . The camp began yesterday and will run through. Friday. The bill, paid by the Indianapolis Council of Parents and Teachers, will be $1200. That’s less than 2 cents for each Indianapolis school child.

public and parochial, aré represented at the camp, even the high schools. Is it worth it? There wasn’t much “shop talk” when the officers. gathered again yesterday and greeted each ‘other after a year. The boys were pretty busy unpacking and stowing their clothing away in the cabins, playing soft ball, learning the rudiments of marching and taking a swim in the reservation pool. Coa ee UT this was overheard, told by a little fellow in a very unassuming manner, much the same as one policeman might tell another of a case he had with a curious quirk to it. “There was a little kid,” he said, “and he told me afterward he was in a hurry to get home because he and his dad were going some : place. “Well, he came up to the curb ‘on the run and I had the signal against him so I thought he would stop. But he didn’t. He ran right out into the ~street. I saw he would have got hit, so I grabbed

hit, too, if he’d gone on. “And what d’ya think he did? He was all ‘excited and he was stuttering and he called me a name. Sure was one of the toughest little guys.” A few questions brought out that that incident happened this spring at Grant. and English Aves. No formal report ever was made of it. Probably, until yesterday, no one but the two boys knew of it.

intendent, said: “We know this camp saves lives.

fense against traffic ac-

of Parents and Teachers

Practically all schools in the city,

his hand. I guess he would’ve got :

William Evans, Public Schools. Safety Director and camp super-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30,

A safety officer gets traffic signal instruction.

The boys get to eat while doing kitchen police.

We know the School Patrol saves lives. We have the word of national experts that the camp is of unique public service.” 8 x 3 : S for the'little fellow who was called a “name” by the smaller school mate he saved—he also

remembered - another lesson he

learned at camp. ; One of the rules says: “Politeness in warning offenders and gentleness in dealing with them will do -more toward educating “a group to safety than a thousand screamed commands or

threats.” The little officer said, upon being questioned, that he had talked to the boy until he had recovered from the excitement of his narrow. escape. Then, when traffic: was right, he motioned him on safely across the street. Out in the middle of a couple hundred of the least traffic-ridden acres in Marion County, and right near the Scout cabins, today jhers is an automatic traffic signal. flashes. _stop and go at regular oy tervals, just like those downtown. That is. part of the equipment

‘used; by the nine supervisors, the ' camp ‘eommander, assistant com-.-mander, superintendent, and mem“bers of the Police and Fire Department who! are training the

officers.

But the boy. patrolmen also are trained in what to do in water ac-:

cidents, and two of the young officers were reported to have saved people from drowning this summer, making use of knowledge they acquired at the camp last year. 2 # & HEY are taught what to do to prevent fires and what to do in case fire breaks out. They

Side Glances—By Clark

“Just. look! And I fold that. camp counselor not fo. lot you: get a : single freckle-on your : nose -thi ert

are taught what to do when some one comes in contact with a highly charged electric wire; how to prevent accidents in the school gymnasium, on the corridors and

stairs, in vocational shops and in

classrooms; how to avoid injuries to themselves and others on the playgrounds; how to ride bicycles safely.

Movies of camp activities will be made this year as they were last. . During the last year the movies made at the first encampment were shown before a National Safety Council Group in Chicago by Mr. Evans..

1988

e Schoolchild'’s Safety i

Boy Patrolmen at Camp 1 nstructed in Traffic Problems and Leadership

‘Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postotfice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Washington

The mess. call may sol, be the most musical, but it’s the most welcuine,

Times Photos.

“Eyes. right!” A company at camp learns’ orderliness.

There are two straight hours of class work every morning and an hour and a half of demonstrations every afternoon. Next to

those periods, the boys are most

serious at 6:45 a. m., 12 noon, and 5 p. m. when they eat. They really put it away. At night there are campfire safety projects. Each officer who passes the examination at the end of the course will get a. jersey slipon sweater, suitable for wearing under a suit coat, which will bear a blue cross, new symbol of the Indianapolis School Patrol.

R. EVANS predicted that at least 95 per cent .of the candidates will pass. “They want to,” he explained. “They're in dead earnest about this program.” - And so the 266 officers who will direct the 2385 School Patrolmen who will watch the safety of more than 60,000 school children are being trained for their job—a job that has a technique nearly as difficult to master as that of a police officer assigned to traffic. Safety experts call it mass insurance at little more than a penny a head.

Englishman's.

By NEA Service ONDON, Aug." ‘30 ~Ruby ‘red wine, rich and fruity and heady, may give red-faced, wealthy Englishmen the gout. But it also may give England a winning card in the great international political game that is going on to capture

a possible alliance with Portugal

in case of a general European war. Portugal doesn’t often get’ into the headlines. © Principally - in the past year or so, it has been mentioned as a small totalitarian state which allowed munitions’ and supplies to seep over its frontiers to the aid and comfort of Franco and his army in the great Spanish civil war. But not so long ago a British military mission paid a visit to Lisbon. It was meant to emphasize the cen-turies-old friendship between Britain and Portugal. The German Nazis sat up and took notice. For they are doing Jie courting of Portugal themS

In case Germany and Italy were ever in a war on one side and France and England on the other, the Mediterranean would no®longer be a safe sea for British ships to pass on their way to the Far Xast nor for French ships to carry food and men from the North African

colonies to the French home coun-

try. Thanks to airplanes and to the submarine nests that Italy has in the big sea, England and France no longer can rule those waters. England’s other route to the Far East and some of her dominions, and France’s route to her French colonial empire would then be via the Atlantic. » » »

FF the northwest shores of Africa ‘are the Portuguese Azoves and Madeira Islands. Farther down, opposite French West Africa, are the Cape Verde Islands. In the Gulf of Guinea and dominating the entrance to the great Congo River, are the Portuguese Islands Principe and St.

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

Love of Port May Be |Vital Bond With Portugal

Thomas. And still farther down is the great Portuguese colony of Angola. If Portugal were to side with England and France, these possessions would be invaluable in safeguarding their shipping. But if she were to side with Germany or Italy, or both, these same possessions would be deadly threats to British. and French shipping in the south Atlantic. It is clever young Antonio Salazar, the Prime Minister, who will juggle England and France versus Germany and Italy. It is he who

will keep all sides guessing. Theres |:

is no need to commit his country prematurely, if at all. But always in the back of his mind there will be the important commercial and financial fact that 25 per cent of his country’s exports is port.. England buys it and drinks it; Germany and Italy don’t and won’t. They have lots of wine of their own, Port may win where diplomacy fails.

1—-In which state is Rainbow Natural Bridge? 2—Name the famous theater in -- Milan, Italy? 3—Where did the famous “Pickett’s charge” occur? 4—What form of governgnent - has Finland? 5—Name the birthstone of No- ~ vember. 6—On which ocean does the South American country Peru border? ; 7—Who discovered the carbon arc for electric lights? 8—In which city are the United . States Botanic Gardens?

8 ==» Answers 1-Utah. > 2—-La Scala. ! 3—At the: Battle: of ettyaturs. 4—Repub lican. 5—~T opaz.

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By Raymond Clapper

Present Gossip Has Dewey at the Top of G. O. P. Presidential List; Hopkins Hinted as F. D. R. Favorites VV ASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Mixed in with

the shrill noise of this primary came paign you hear the low mumbling chatter

‘about who will be who in 1940. This Presi . dential talk is little more than free-lance

gossip now; still, it is the gossip of the men

. whose trade is politics and it is not to be regarded

too lightly. Gossip and guesses concerning Republican possis bilities now center almost exclu-

. sively upon Thomas E. Dewey of

New York. If he wins the Hines trial, he is certain to be drafted by the Republicans as their candidate for Governor. - Even if he loses the trial he may still be the candi--dete because it might then be said that Mr. Dewey ought to go to Al-

. bany where he can really take a

swing at the crooks, :If Mr, Dewey

ered quite good, how are you going : to keep the Republican Party from Mr, Clapper nominating him for President? Republicans are not choosey any more. In reserve the Republicans have James, their candidate for Gove ernor in Pennsylvania. If Mr. Dewey failed them for any reason, there might be Mr. James as second choice for President, He would have to be pumped up considerably but modern publicity men can do wonders. Further back in reserve is Richard J. Lyons, of Illinois, a promising 42-year-old Republican candidate for the Senate. If he wins in November they’ll put him on the prose pect list. Mr. Hoover and Mr, Landon are out, Sen ator Vandenberg, still the dominating figure as a name, is becoming shopworn. Republican leaders want more than anything else to get a new face. On the Democratic side ‘many little acorns are sprouting, but which one will grow into the mighty oak will depend upon which is most carefully nure tured by President Roosevelt. I still think the thirde term talk is mostly hooey. I don’t believe Mr. Roose= velt will let John Hamilton draft him for a third.

Weather Important to Wallace

Gossip plays with many names, including, among others, the following: Harry Hopkins, who is undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt's personal favorite of all first-string New Dealers. Mr. Hopkins is doing more and more backstage political work for Mr. Roosevelt. It is a question whether Mr. Roosevelt has decided that Mr. Hopkins would make a good candidate. If he didn’t throw it to the faste moving, 100 per cent fighting New Deal relief chief, that would be the only reason. Secretary Wallace appeals to many New Dealers. His ability and sincere liberalism are unquestioned, He is much smarter politically than he is given credit for being, which is the best way to have it.” Mr. Wale lace of course is greatly at the mercy of the weather, His political fortunes are affected so much by crops, and nobody will know until 1940 whether Mr. Wallace has saved the farmer or left him after eight years back where Mr. Hoover had him. But I'm running out of space. There's Sawyer in Ohio, Governor Stark of Missouri, who may be used to slow down Bennett Clark, and the two men who, except for the religious question, would be certain to go far on their own sfeam—Farley and Joe Kennedy. Again, it’s all chatter and talk. Mr. Roosevelt will be able to nominate anyone he chooses. :

Jane Jordan

Living Away From Mother May Give

Husband Boost Needed, Wife Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been married for 13 years and we have a boy of 10. My husband was

L just out of college when we married and my parents

were dead. They had left me a little money, so we thought we could marry before my husband was placed in business. Then an uncle of mine sold us a business That took my inheritance and twice that much in bankable paper indorsed by my mother-in-law, which she had to pay because of business reverses and the general slump. My husband has not made good and I have worked. He does not dissipate nor is he rough, but he is losing faith in himself. We live in his mother’s home and are six months behind with the rent. I earn $25 a week and she thinks I should begin paying rent. Now he is her son and I need my money myself. Should I get a divorce and try to marry someone who can support me and our boy? Or is it fair for his mother to ask me for rent? My relatives say I should let her worry. DOUBTFUL.

. Answer—From a strictly et ethical view your mothers in-law is entitled to her rent. After a man is married it is- his wife who should share his misfortunes and ‘not his mother. After all your mother-in-law has lost a lot of money in backing you two in business. She has to look ou: for her old age and doubtless her faith in her son’s ability to help her is waning. Unless she hangs on to what she has, what will she do when she is old and helpless? I do not know whether you should stick to your

- husband or not. You will have to decide if he is

worth your loyalty. You ought not to be living with your mother-in-law at all. Aftef all this may be your husband’s trouble. To live in. the house with his mother, dependent on her bounty, keeps him in the infantile position he occupied during childhood. If you could find some way to live alone, no matter how humbly, it might break the pattern and liberate ‘energies you didn’t know he had. - 8 = 2 : EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am an unmarried mothes and I live with my parents. My father has been out of work since January. My parents give me a home but cannot buy clothes. for. me or the baby. I hear that I could. get. a widow's. pension. ‘Could you tell me? : WAITING.

Answer—I1 know of no 0 such pension for unmarried

mothers. Try to get a job.

Note to E. MI am sorry sorry but it is impossible for me to give personal interviews, JANE JORDAN.

in rg e Jordan, whe will answer your Tuestions in this dally. 1

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